A 6-year-old boy tired of playing Legos at his after-school day care forged a note that led his school to send him home instead.

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Now, his mother is using Facebook to blast the Middleboro School Department for its handling of the incident, and school officials have changed school policy, according to our news partner, The Enterprise.

The mother posted a message Tuesday about the incident on Facebook. She's looking for disciplinary action against the school secretary who accepted her son's note.

“Accepting that note doesn’t bode well for the educational system in Middleboro,” said Amie Nay, the mother.

Nay said in December, her 6-year-old son wrote the note in fluorescent yellow marker on finger-paint paper.

In a childish scrawl, with words misspelled, the boy, Gannon, wrote: “Dery (Dear) Mrs Trottyry (Trottier): Gannon is not going to the program.”

Nay said his teacher at the Henry B. Burkland Elementary School was suspicious and sent Gannon to the office with the note. A secretary left a message on an old cell number and approved the change in dismissal. His forged note has an instruction at the bottom, in adult writing: “No YMCA.”

Nay said she had updated her number with the school, the day care and bus company. But the school apparently hadn’t made the change.

Nay got a call from the day care program when her son didn’t show up. Nay left work and started calling family members but no one knew the boy’s whereabouts.

“My son was missing, and I had no idea where he was,” Nay said.

In the end, Gannon was found safe with an elderly neighbor and was eating a snack. He confessed to the forgery with the excuse he was sick of the day care’s Legos and wanted to go home and play his Wii, his mother said.